Carson sees this as something that should be fixed -- John's body, that is. From what I've seen of him on the show, he tends toward a conservative view (specifically, I'm thinking about Critical Mass and the way he spoke to Teyla about Charin in the infirmary), and to him, the greater sin was what John's father had done. He can't imagine accepting a gender assignment if there's a way to reset everything and "make it right."
Based on the way I treated the prompt, he kind of has a point. John was intersexed at birth, and his parents made the decision for him, which is common (and which is starting to be controversial as intersexed children grow up and realize they could have had a choice if their parents had left well enough alone). Since John was emotionally coerced to identify as male, Carson feels a lot of damage could be undone by healing John's body.
As far as John is concerned, that's just crazy talk, which again is absolutely correct. John identifies as male, and anything that would change that self-image is just crazy-talk, no matter if he sometimes wonders what it would have been like to grow up as a woman. It's idle speculation and pointless to boot, because John knows full well that he's had the life he had thanks to his father. That his father was kind of an asshole is something John understands but is really beside the point.
Anyway, your prompt was the only one that caught my eye, and as soon as I saw it, I knew that Carson and an Ancient machine would be involved. Thank you for putting it up -- I appreciated the challenge.
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Based on the way I treated the prompt, he kind of has a point. John was intersexed at birth, and his parents made the decision for him, which is common (and which is starting to be controversial as intersexed children grow up and realize they could have had a choice if their parents had left well enough alone). Since John was emotionally coerced to identify as male, Carson feels a lot of damage could be undone by healing John's body.
As far as John is concerned, that's just crazy talk, which again is absolutely correct. John identifies as male, and anything that would change that self-image is just crazy-talk, no matter if he sometimes wonders what it would have been like to grow up as a woman. It's idle speculation and pointless to boot, because John knows full well that he's had the life he had thanks to his father. That his father was kind of an asshole is something John understands but is really beside the point.
Anyway, your prompt was the only one that caught my eye, and as soon as I saw it, I knew that Carson and an Ancient machine would be involved. Thank you for putting it up -- I appreciated the challenge.